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Dec 24 2005
Streaming Music From Your PC To Your PSP
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With the added support for RSS feeds, it only makes sense to take advantage of this feature. The best way, in my opinion, is to make your music library on your computer available to your PSP. This can be accomplished in a short amount of time.
This is just one way to do it. There are other servers that you use. I've tried Apache and didn't like it very much. I've also been told to use Windows IIS, but I am using Windows XP Home Edition, so that option isn't available to me.
This is a walkthrough of one way to make your music library available to your PSP, wirelessly. It is in baby steps, so it makes it a bit easier for people who have had trouble with this kind of thing.
What You'll Need
• A wireless network
• Abyss Web Server
• PHP5
• PSP RSS Feeder
Once you download the PSP RSS Feeder, extract the contents to the folder with all of your music. The feeder will allow you to select which song to listen to. For organization purposes, I used MP3Organizer to put my music into folders based on "Artist". You don't have to do this, but I find it to be much easier to navigate and find what I want.
That is all you need to do with the PSP RSS Feeder.
After you download PHP5, run the installer. Once installation has complete, move onto setting up the server. Remember the install directory that you use because you'll need it later. By default, it is C:PHP.
Download the free version of Abyss (X1). During the installation of the server, you'll be promted to make a username and password for access to the console. Use something that you can easily remember. Go to the configuration page in your web browser (localhost:9999 by default).
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Click the "Configure" button next to "Default Host On Port 80" in the hosts table. Then select "General" and change the Documents Path to the folder with your music in it. Click OK.
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When you are back at the Edit page, click on Index Files. Add "index.php" to the list (leaving out the quotes). Click OK.
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Then click on "Scripting Parameters". Make sure that "Enable Script Execution" is checked. On the "Interpreters" table, click "Add". For the "Interpreter" field, click "Browse" and find the file "php-cgi.exe". It is in the folder that you installed PHP5 ("C:PHPphp-cgi.exe", by default). Change the "Type" drop down menu to "PHP Style". Make sure that "Use the associated extensions to automatically update the Script Paths" is checked. At the "Associated Extensions" table, add "php" to the list (again, leaving out the quotes).
On the same page is a table called "Custom Environmental Variables". Click Add and enter these values:
Name: REDIRECT_STATUS
Value: 200
Click OK to save the changes.
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You'll also have to click "Restart' so the server can restart and the changes will be enabled.
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To test it out, just enter "localhost" into a browser window. You should see a blue and purple page similar to the one shown below.
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If you didn't put your MP3s into folders, your page will look different, but it's not a big deal.
If you are in the same network as the computer that is running the server, all you need to do to access your RSS Feed is enter your local IP address into the PSP Web Browser. If you don't know your local IP address, do this:
Go to "Start > Run > CMD > ipconfig" and hit enter. It will say IP Address and then some numbers. In my case, it's 192.168.x.xx. It depends on what kind of router/access point you are using.
If you want to access your music library from outside of the network (over the internet), then you need to either use your IP that is provided by your ISP, or use a DNS service, such as no-ip.org, to bind a domain (yourdomain.no-ip.org) to your IP address. They have several subdomains to choose from, and the service is free.
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Your a genius DCLXVI - You just saved me forking £200 on a squeezebox. Cheers, Lee
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Wel you can donate at my site, just kidding.. better wait for 2.0, way better. or spent your money on some bluetooth stereo headphones 
That's good to hear! This is supposed to be dynamic, but doesn't seem to work no more on higher versions of php..
I will look into to this when I finish the flash version (I'm waiting for the memory stick cache, so we can play it right from the browser)
remember that if you want it to work from outside (like a coffebar) you have to fill in your outside ip in there and forward the webservers port (default 80) on your router to your pc's ip. (you can aslo copy the index.php file and rename it with the outside address inside and call that page when you are outside, this way you don't have to change it all the time). Also, as you would understand, channels loading inside can't be played outside and vice versa, but you can just reload them ofcourse....
have fun! I still have every day...edited: Sep 07 2006
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Seriously DCLXVI how do i donate? I really appreciate your time & help. Cheers, Lee
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man, I really appriciate that, but i really did not mean to beg for money, it was just a trying to be funny response to your saving 200 pounds with my free program.
But if you really want to, there is a donation button on the site you downloaded it from (www.dclxvi.nl/psp_rss). Actually you would be the third donator of thousands of downloads. but I do understand it's not easy to set up so.. (well mostly webservers not psp rss itself), and there are a few people who keep supporting me, with helping people setting it up or keep sending me motivating emails every now and then and ideas or nice fonts to use etc.. and that's also worth a lot to me...
I must appologize for still not finishing up 2.0, it was almost finished the day I anouched it (right after 2.7 frimware), but been busy ever since.. thanks to all people who are waiting for it, for your patients....edited: Sep 07 2006
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ok, i'm getting the dreaded "Communication with server failed. (80431064)" error. it generates the feed successfully, but when you go to play the tracks the error comes up. what i've noticed though, is that when you look at the information for each of the tracks, the address is formated like this: "http://ipaddress/filename.mp3". i'm guessing that the "" after the ip address is what's causing this. any ideas?
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i figured it out, i plugged in the ip address into the index.php (as mentioned earlier).
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Just did exactly the same thing and now i can enjoy the music on my psp wirelessly. Thanks DCLXVI for your great work
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That's really good to hear! Thanks!
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Hello again everybody. I am still enjoying the knowlegde this forum has given me. But i have a question. How do you display the artist's name with the song title in the channel feeder page?? i have absolutely no knowledge with PHP or html coding, so i would appreciate if anyone could tell me how to display the artist's name along with the song's title. thanks for any input.
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it reads id3 tags from the mp3's or uses filenames and foldernames. But a lot of mp3's you download from the net seem to have id3 data but with emty values or just a space in them, so you get empty tracknames sometimes..
for album names it uses the foldername, for artist the foldername where the album folder is in and so forth. This is because if you have various mp3's in a folder, which album or artist from the id3 tag name should the program choose from what mp3's id3 tag to display in PSP RSS?
it's just a choice I've made with the programming. In the upcoming version you can watch the mp3's id3 info (artist trackname) when selected scrolling at the bottom of the screen.
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Screenshot of my RSS Channel Feeder Page
The screenshot shows how it looks now with only the song titles. I would like for it to display the artist's name AND the song titles. What do i have to modify in the index.php to display the artist's name too??
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since you say you have absolutly no knowledge of PHP or HTML etc. I will make a custom index.php version for you.
try it: link
but in a lot of cases the names will be very long together with the artist name, and get shortend.
longer than 60 characters will make the site display wrong. If you don't mind that let me know I'll turn that off, but you'll have to scroll sideways to read them.. ugly...
That's why I showed only the title. in most cases the foldernames make the title on top of the page. only with various tracks or compilation cd's it might be a problem, but in that case I always put the artistname with the trackname in id3 settings when making mp3's.edited: Oct 17 2006
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THANKS VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! This is exactly what I was hoping for. Ah man this is great. WOO HOOO! I have alot of MP3s that feature one artist and it wouldve been crazy for me to make a folder for just one MP3. I dont dont care about the extra long title. I care more about knowing what is what rather than a sleek look. And besides, most of the time my friend uses this 800 X 600 computer monitor to browse the Channel Feeder Page when I Host my music library as a website. Again, Thanks DCL. Very few people care about their work and how it is implemented in the real world with it's clients. Your 1 on 1 support with users of this product is the reason why i keep checking your site for the much anticipated PSP RSS 2.0.
You now have a devoted user of your product. I hope your other client-based ventures become great like this one.
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Thanks, that's good to hear! Almost get some time off, so I can continue the build so I can (just like 1.0) release it arround christmas.
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Hi everyone,
I'm REALLY sorry to do this to you all, considering the wealth of information in this forum topic, but although im a very confident PC user and I'm more than prepared to tinker around with things, I have absolutly no understanding of scripts, rss, webservers, DCLXVI's feeder, etc etc. Yet I still would love to be able to stream my music files to my psp (running 2.8 i believe)
Is there any possibility someone could create a single document that explains all the steps involved, either in the form or a walkthrough (i realise this would probably be a rather time consuming job) or simply as a set of links to pages and text that would help a complete newbie along? This would make the whole procedure far simpler...
Thanks, and sorry again if this is a totally ridiculous question.
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